'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Guido Farnell, Journalist

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Album Review: The Parrots - Los Ninos Sin Miedo
"The Parrots deal a classic '60s garage sound that has its roots in '50s rock'n'roll."
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Album Review: The Frightnrs - Nothing More To Say
"2016 continues to be brutal."
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Album Review: Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith - Killer Road
"Immersive listening that sometimes requires suspension of disbelief."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
"The outfit's thunderous assault on the eardrums just feels good."
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Album Review: Warhaus - We Fucked A Flame Into Being
"Warhaus shifts from desire to desperation as Devoldere tries to grasp the wild excesses of love's ecstatic and more elusive moments."
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Album Review: Rainbow Chan - Spacings
"...bewitchingly elfin in exactly the same way that those words have been used to describe Bjork."
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Album Review: Venus II - Inside Your Sun
"Driving beats and sugar coated hooks."
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Album Review: Blind Pilot - And Then Like Lions
"Fragile, bittersweet emotions to tug at the heartstrings and induce quiet tears."
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Album Review: Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up To Monto
"Across all the genre shifts Murphy manages to be her delightfully quirky self."
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Album Review: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - The Soft Bounce
"An epic album that shifts across upbeat flower powered ye-ye that pops to irresistible beats and hypnotic and hallucinatory ambiences..."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Esperanza Spalding
"Spalding is easier to digest when she isn't trying to pack as much as she possibly can into every minute."
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Album Review: Karl Blau - Introducing Karl Blau
"Blau has selected of bunch of heartbreaking tunes and wrapped them in luscious orchestrations, which just feel sublimely chill."
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